Comments on: Diving into PHP: Day 3

By: Mars

Mars — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:20:32 +0000

think you should have noted not to use PRINT instead of ECHO.
I remember from the first video, you mention print and echo. That there is no real difference…
Well I used PRINT instead of echo, just to keeps things similar flow.
It took me 10 min to figure out why “myVariable” was being shown instead of the value given to it in page3.php

By: Towel

Towel — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:20:23 +0000

For some odd reason, my version is not working. I have gone through and compared my version, which is identical to Jeff’s. I put Jeff’s version on my site (not working on localhost because WAMP wasn’t working, figured since my (mt) website had PHP i would use that) in the same folder, and it worked. My doesn’t though. I checked period for period, semi-colon for semi-colon, all the same.

If anyone could help that would be amazing.

By: Joel

Joel — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:09:20 +0000

Nevermind, it works already. Thanks.

By: Joel

Joel — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:07:24 +0000

I can’t seem to play the video on Day 3. Is there a way to fix this? Thank you.

By: Zac

Zac — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:12:40 +0000

@Jason – Just by quickly reading your comment I’m guessing you didnt concatenate in the second example. When using single quotes you have to do what is called concatenating. If you don’t, php will view $myVariable as what you want the browser to actually display. If you concatenate the variable the php will realize its a variable and replace the variable with its value. Check out day 2, Jeff goes over it better than you will ever have it explained in your life.

By: seointexas

seointexas — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:35:13 +0000

Great again!!

By: mike carey

mike carey — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:41:49 +0000

Jeffrey- these (and your other screencasts) are awesome- well presented and you have a teacher’s gift !

Is there a way you can link the episodes together- so when you post $5, there is a link on #4 to get you to #5 ? (or is there already there and I am just missing it ?)

thank you for your wonderful work.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:05:11 +0000

Why does this make a difference: echo "Got to page 2"; versus echo 'Got to page 2'; With the former everything works correctly and page 2 shows Hello Joe but with the latter it shows Hello $myVariable I'm not sure I understand why it works that way. . .

By: Bl0ckHead

Bl0ckHead — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:27:12 +0000

was curious about how to implement the variable from day2 into day3. where it could use the if else statement and spit out Your name is Jeff, yourName or Your name is not Jeff, yourName

great job BTW and thank you

Bl0ckHead

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:09:43 +0000

Solved it!

The get string had some capital letters that i had missed, when ik typed the GET statement EXACTLY as in the index.php form it worked like a charm!

Hope this solves the problems of others too!